Italy

Something about Sicily Panata I´m Mexican from an Italian family three generations back. One custom we do keep from our Italian heritage is the apple covered in scented cloves that hangs in a special center place for the x´mas season like the chandelier…and every year you put that same apple in water to rehydrate and

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Christmas Eve Dinner DebiDel I have always been told that you are supposed to eat 12 kinds of fish/seafood for Christmas Eve dinner. The reason being, one seafood for each of Christ’s Apostles as they were considered “Fishers of Men”. I actually don’t have any idea how Christmas is celebrated in Italy and I got

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Kindly Witch???Need info… browniemom I have a Brownie Girl Scout Troop and we are doing a X-Mas skit about X-Mas around the world, I found one cute poem which tells of a kindly witch leaving gifts on Jan. 6th..Can anyone elaborate for me? Please email ASAP to [email protected] THANK YOU!

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Christmas Eve & Seven Fish loosee I am of Italian descent and my family still follows the Christmas Eve tradition of a meatless meal. The tradition is a religious one, based on the number 7 being the number associated with God, just as the number 6 is the number associated with the devil. Although the

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Our Christmas tradition – 12 courses marsbar27 I am a Canadian from Italian heritage. My parents come from Cosenza, Calabria. My mother has always had the tradition of serving 12 courses for Christmas eve, and all being meatless. She always includes the salt cod (baccala) in tomato sauce, the spaghetti with anchovies, and always broccoli.

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The Joyful tree: the highest luminous tree null null A marvellous Christmas tree appears every year at Bussero, a small town a few kilometres from Milan, Italy. The Joyful Tree is unlike other trees: it is an artificial Christmas tree 62,5 metres high, illuminated by 93,400 lights, and it has been included in the Guinness

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